Hello Listeners, and Happy Wednesday! Coach Kate here for another day of our Minute Explorations! This is a space I host week day mornings to go over explorations, motivations, places of gratitude, wise words and even some science behind it all. If that sounds like a space you'd also like to join, feel free to follow me so we can explore these morning revelations together.
Today, for our mid week check in, I thought I'd touch on the concept of Not Yet. I asked myself this morning if it was Friday, and instead of say No, I said, no not yet. So I started thinking of how that can also apply in this space and how gorgeous the mind-shift around just adding a Yet at the end of that statement is. The statement of "No." is harsh, short lived, and discontinues the story entirely. YET when we add that not yet, it inspires hope and gives us a pause to consider what the future possibility of that could encompass instead. Now this can apply to a lot of areas in our lives. The phrase no, is an ending. The phrase, not yet, can be a beginning. When we allow ourselves to sit with a "no" and not a "not yet" we also allow ourselves to fail. Sometimes not failing something is as simple as going, okay, this pathway didn't work, I wonder what will work.
Now there are so many quotes out there on failures, and even more on beginning again. Because it's a common thing with success to push through multiple attempts to understand the why something wasn't working and what we can do instead. Today I chose a quote from Henry Ford to share with you all. Henry Ford was the inventor of the automobile and he was set with so much criticism and roadblocks along the way. Sometimes the not yet, is just a reimagining of the future instead, and Henry Ford did just that with transportation. Instead of looking at the impossible: faster and faster horses, he looked at what he could control instead: a motor vehicle. Here is his quote on failure:
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
-Henry Ford
This was what Henry Ford's Not Yet was: a possibility that things could look different - and better - in the future. Sometimes success is just finding which door is opening for ourselves along the way. Telling ourselves not yet, is understanding that the possibilities are endless with a no sometimes-- but only if we're open to is.
So the next time, you're hit with a No at a question you're given. I hope you're brave enough to tack on the Not yet to that as well. It could like this, are you getting a raise this year? Not yet. Have you lost those ten pounds? Not yet. Have you called your mom or connected with someone you love? Not yet. There is action and promise of better future things for ourselves when we are brave enough to give ourselves the call to action that is Not Yet. We often cannot control the setbacks or the Nos we interact with along the way, but we can control our outlooks and be open to the possibilities that No opens for us when we tell ourselves Not Yet.
I'm Coach Kate, thanks for listening today. If you liked what you heard today, feel free to subscribe. I host this space weekday mornings and I would love to connect with you all in this space together. If you'd like to listen to any of my older Minute Explorations or talks, you can do so on my profile underneath the talk tab.
I hope you all continue to answer that Not Yet and that it brings you closer to your dreams.
